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Monday, 3 December 2012

Colleen Doran: 'A Distant Soil' Restoration Project

Loss of Negatives:

Our printer went bankrupt and accidentally discarded our complete
inventory of negatives of the art for my entire A Distant Soil graphic novel series,
nearly 1000 pages of material. While we do have a good deal of the art,
restoring the lost pages is taking five months, and the loss of the
negatives has cost me over $20,000 in production work. We cannot bring
my series back into print without this restoration.

We're
deeply in the middle of the restoration now. It is going very well, but the
primary concern is funds to pay my assistant, who is doing the bulk of
restoration on original art we were unable to recover. In the end, it
appears we will be able to restore the vast majority of the
series directly from the original art. But the few hundred pages of art
that must be restored from copies are quite the challenge. Mr Allan
Harvey is handling that job, and he is doing great. I am handling the
700 or so pages of
original artwork.

Original Art Search:

If you purchased A Distant Soil original art, I would be very
grateful if you would get in touch with me. I would be especially
grateful if you would either scan the art to my specs, or loan me the
originals for scanning. I will reimburse you all your expenses, as well
as send you a little something nice extra. (At first I thought I only
needed pages sold prior to 2008, but some of my early scans are quite
poor. So, no matter what you have bought, please let me know.)

Final Story Arc Due In 2013:

I have twelve
issues of new art and story to complete to bring the A Distant Soil series to its
finale at Image Comics beginning next year. This is the end run of my epic series, and I’ve got to do
it right. There is a lot of planning to do - financial planning as well as
scheduling - and technical work that must be completed on the new
editions of the graphic novels.

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